[Richard Crowley]

"Steven Liburd" wrote ...
I am experimenting with converting my vinyl collection to CD. Perhaps it is
my equipment, but it seems that the volume level of my vinyl is somewhat
lower than my CDs. Is it me, my equipment, or is there a standard gain that
I should apply to files converted from analog to digital before I burn them
to CD?

1. Use an appropriate recording level to begin with.
It should be easy enough to estimate where the "loudest" parts
of the tracks are by visual inspection. Set the recording level
to 3dB below the playback peak (to allow for surprises).

2. Normalize
Then "normalize" the resulting file to 0dBFS (or whatever your
preference).

3. Compress (optional?)
You may find that even that doesn't sound as "loud" as modern
CDs because of the notorious use of heavy compression on
digital recordings released these days. You can try compressing
your files (before converting to MP3, etc.) if you wish.